Landscaping Courses

The best training you are likely to find for working as an elite garden designer. Outstanding learning is of course only part of what makes a landscape designer exceptional. You also need a flair for design, a passion for gardens and a practical touch (including some management and business abilities).

This course works hard at developing all of these capabilities, as much as any course can; and provides interaction with leading landscape professionals in both Australia and the UK.

This course has been developed over many years and has been an effective training program for people working, or wishing to work, in the landscape industry. It is suitable for someone looking to operate their own business, or who may be working at a supervisory level in a business.

An ideal course for anyone wanting to work as a landscape contractor, supervisor or landscape gardener.

Ideal for people wanting to either:

start their own landscape business, or

find employment with someone else in landscaping

This course develops skills in general horticulture, plant identification and use, designing, costing and constructing gardens. This course is similar to other C12CN002 horticulture certificates in its introductory (core) units, but devotes 50% of the course to topics specifically related to landscaping.

Learn more about the history of gardens - An understanding of garden history can provide a wonderful foundation for improving your garden design skills.

This is a course for not only students of garden design, but also practising professional designers, and horticulturists who wish to broaden their understanding of gardens across many countries and over the centuries.

This course has been written by highly qualified garden designers from both the UK and Australia, to present different styles of gardens and demonstrate the evolution of gardens across the world.

ACS Student Comment:The course has been
fabulous because it really made me think beyond my own planting ideas. I
have particularly enjoyed the research into noted garden writers and
considering the legal aspects of conservation for the future.Melanie Veasey, UK - Garden History Course.

This course can either fine tune the important landscaping skills you acquired upon completion of Landscaping 1, or it can be taken as a self contained study unit. It is equally suited to those already working or looking to work in the industry, or enthusiastic gardeners with good basic landscaping knowledge.

In this course you learn to design and build such things as walls, rockeries, steps, ponds, and paving; and you develop skills to create specific effects in a garden.

"Investigate the style of different types of gardens"

Learn to apply the principles, design features and elements that make up many types and styles of gardens. This is an outstanding course for even experienced landscape designers, developing skills in developing everything from a formal to an eclectic garden, and a Mediterranean to an oriental landscape.

This course develops a sound understanding of the design and construction of small community parks and playgrounds. A valuable course for parks managers or designers, .the course covers playground philosophy, design of play structures (for function and safety), materials selection, community participation and park design.

This course was developed by John Mason, author of "The Environment of Play" and former Playground Designer with PRAV. Mr Mason was Australia's representative for the International Play Association in the late 1970's, and has maintained a keen interest in children's playground design since that time.

Study playground design and learn more developing a concept, materials and structures, child psychology, the environment of play, green walls and roofs and landscaping. The course requires around 500 hours of study. Work through the course by distance learning supported by our excellent playground design and development tutors.
More info & enrolment: PROFICIENCY AWARD IN PLAYGROUND DESIGN VHT243 »

Develop your skills in designing, constructing and maintaining a variety of different types of water gardens (fountains, streams, ponds, waterfalls, etc). Water gardens may be small or large, and when used properly can bring movement, sounds and a character to a garden that cannot be found any other way.

Internationally Recognised Training

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